And yet the democratic party remains the only one where progressives are able to have a voice and make a modicum of progress.

Also, I didn’t say anything about democrats, positive or negative, in my comment. OP was about republicans, so I commented about republicans.

You can’t hoard wealth and distribute it too.

The average republican is not super wealthy, of course, but they are manipulated and controlled by those who are.

or dials even!

Also deserts are not even nearly lifeless. A solar farm of the size needed would wipe out a lot of habitat.

I’ve not tried to make such a table myself in Libreoffice, but when I open one that someone at work made with excel, everything works as expected.

Wow, hopefully that doesn’t get tampered!

There are alternatives for everything, and most of them are better that the windows-only options. Gimp, for example, is far superior to Photoshop.

That said, some folks do have to use the crappy MS software for work. There’s nothing to be done but to pity them.

omg I just watched all of that video and it is freaking great! What a revelation. I learned so much about how AI really works, even though that is not directly the subject.
Thank you!

Unfortunately there are a few too many young men who think that all looks “fun.” They’ve been playing at all those scenarios in video games their whole lives, and now they want the real thing.

It looks like the dart took out about a half dozen lights and a dozen people in about two seconds, so let’s say 10 strikes per second. At that rate it would take 10^11 seconds to pop a trillion balloons. That’s more than 3000 years!

Of course I did say “make a tiny dent,” but even to eliminate 0.1% of the balloons would take the dart 3 years. One trillion is a number that we use a lot, for example talking about the US national debt, but it is not an ordinary number that lends itself to intuitive understanding. Even a billion is hard to grasp intuitively.

All the fighter jets in the world couldn’t make a tiny dent in one trillion balloons.

I’m just so grateful that so many great scientists fled nazi germany. Also that those who stayed behind (this is controversial and not known for sure) hindered and delayed Germany’s nuclear weapons program.

Sure enough! Thanks, that was fun to watch again.

Isn’t that step two?

I feel like step one was “get a box,” but I could be misremembering.

Much better! I approve!

Let’s try to make this work! Please?

All someone has to do to avoid being called a boomer is

Everyone born between 1945 and 1960 (in the US) is literally unable to do anything to avoid being known as and called a boomer. The word was around for decades before some stupid mean people tried to redefine it based on their ageism, or in other words their ridiculous belief that old people are evil.

When it is used to denigrate a “mindset” that you don’t like, it is most certainly a slur. When used to refer to folks who were born between 1945 and 1960, it is not.

We’ve all agreed (almost all) to stop using the word retarded to refer derogatorily to folks who do not have that medical condition.

Any word can be used as a slur.

Fine. Use a word for it that isn’t a bigoted slur.

I’m with you right up to the ageism. The folks who persecuted Aaron were older than him, but they were not boomers, and what they did had nothing to do with his age or theirs.

Bigotry is always wrong.

Kill the aliens.

Srsly tho, it’s not about the tech they have or the 1000x power. Any jamming can be circumvented, and humans would have a much greater motivation to adapt than the aliens would.